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...significance attached to Truman by the Republican opposition was attested by the G.O.P.'s first countermove: Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper and South Dakota's Senator Francis Case joined to form a Republican "Truth Squad," set out to follow Truman through the same whistle stops and present the Republican rebuttal to his "facts." The Republican vigilance was thoroughly justified; the President was engaged in a no-holds-barred assault on the Republican Party's strongest asset. At Montana's Tiber Dam, Truman pushed down a plunger setting...
...full of melodramatic feats of hitting, fielding and pitching. It produced two blown-in-the-bottle heroes: Dodger Centerfielder Duke Snider, who hit four home runs in the first six games, and Yankee First Baseman Johnny Mize, the oldest (39) player on the field, who delivered a pinch-hit homer, muscled into the regular lineup, and golfed two more into the stands on successive days. The record for home runs in a World Series was broken. Some of the circus catches by the Dodgers' outfielders were so incredible that the stalwarts who had done the deeds gaped at blown...
Second Game. Clearly affronted, Casey Stengel's team maneuvered skillfully behind the three-hit pitching of big Vic Raschi (16-6), scored five runs in the sixth (including a three-run homer by Second Baseman Billy Martin), squelched the Dodgers...
Fourth Game. This time Reynolds and Black gave up four hits apiece. But Allie got his revenge, shut out the Dodgers, won mainly on a 450-ft. triple by Mickey Mantle and another homer by Mize. Score: Yankees 2, Dodgers...
Fifth Game. In the fifth, Snider hit his second homer, scoring two teammates. The Yankees fired back with five runs; three of them rode in on Mize's third home run in three days. Manager Charley Dressen let Pitcher Carl Erskine stay in, and he pitched no-hit ball the rest of the way. In the eleventh, Hero Snider sliced a double that won for the Dodgers...